THERE are great hours in the history of men and nations, which are like the blossoming period of a plant or the perihelion of a comet. They are prepared for long before: they come by inevitable laws, but by no calculable method. In the story of each sent, they are brief periods crowded with thought and love and power; periods for the sake of which it is well to pass through long decades of dreary routine; to which we hasten forward, led by instinctive hope, as to oases in the desert; to which we look backward in grateful memory as to the master-lights of our being.

These hours in history are the days of judgment on mankind. They make history. They are its essence. They judge the past and the future.

Happy are those whose lot it is to live in such periods,the history-making epochs, the blossoming years of human life. They may be full of outward disaster and woe; but they are full-freighted with knowledge and life.

Such was the hour of Christ's death.

He called it the

Day of the Judgment of the World. We are accustomed to suppose, that the only day of judgment is one which is to arrive by and by, at the end of this outward world. But, in truth, there are many such days of judgment, when Christ comes in the clouds of heaven, obscurely seen, hidden by mists and vapors, yet with power and glory; not here nor there, not in one place or in another, but in all hearts at once, as the lightning shines all round the sky in a moment; parting the sheep from the goats,-testing the true condition of every soul, - showing who have insight to perceive the meaning of the time, and who not.

"Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide,

In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side.
Some great cause, God's new Messiah, offering each the bloom or blight,
Parts the goats upon the left hand, and the sheep upon the right;
And the choice goes by for ever 'twixt that darkness and that light."

Now is the judgment of the world. judgment-days of God and of his Christ.

This is one of the
After long strug-

gles, after much indecision, every man in the United States is to-day compelled to choose between love of slavery and love of freedom. Let us choose well now.

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An Address to the Alumni of the Divinity School, Cambridge, July, 1861.

THE subject, brethren, of my address to you at this time, is one which concerns us all as Christian preachers, and as Alumni of a Liberal School of Theology. It is "The Coming of Christ and of his Antichrists; or, to put it into less scholastic phrase," Christianity, and its Substitutes in Human History."

Is there any one who has not attempted to enter into the mind of Christ, and to understand his thoughts, feelings, and purposes in relation to his mission? From the hints and suggestions of the Gospels, have we not all endeavored to construct some consistent image of Jesus, the Son of man, -penetrating his thought and heart? Here is my picture, as I see him across all these centuries. There are two or three little windows through which I look into his mind: one is the History of the Temptation ;